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Mind you that information does come from a tabloid source so it's bound to be a pack of lies isn't i
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Osem, turning the murder of a 15 year old into a veiled attack on me is so far from classy that you can't see it with a high-powered telescope. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.
Anyway, you haven't been paying attention - you can trust murder figures from tabloids for the same reason you can trust them from the police*. The difference is that the police will point out when they reduce, which they have.
One thing - this isn't just another murder in London, it's another murder in Lambeth, which has way higher rates than anywhere else in the capital, 8.64 per 100,000 population in 2007. Next worst was Newham with 5.33, round my way it's 1.41.
* they're impossible to lie about, which is a common argument of mine against the 'you can't trust government crime figures so I'll believe the Daily Mail' line. It's only at the lower end of the seriousness of crime that you can plausibly say that figures can be distorted by under-reporting or official indifference, but murder has a near-100% reporting rate and the police always investigate, so that line of argument is ridiculous and verges on conspiracy theory.